| 单词 | harridan |
| 例句 | “And this old harridan will help you how?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "It is the herbs make it so fine," explained the harridan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Not as slowly as a man carrying a cripple, though, or a bony harridan with a four-year-old on her back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The difference here is the arrival of children, of course: they turn nonchalant good-time girls into carping harridans, in life and in this book. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z Throughout, we cannot be entirely sure whether this harridan is putting us on or pulling us in, which is exactly as it should be. Another Jenny O'Hara triumph in 'Broomstick' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In these pages, however, the editors paint Millar as a shrewish, selfish harridan, even though Macdonald and Welty always speak of her with respect and affection. ‘Meanwhile There Are Letters’ review: The rich friendship of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The only reason it isn't offensive to straight men is that there aren't any; Big is something else, a shambling, half-dead ghoul enslaved to a demonic harridan. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z Just when the characters slant toward stereotype — harridan, rake — she offers them depth and complexity. Theater Review: ‘Playing With Grown Ups’ by Hannah Patterson at 59E59 2014-05-07T19:39:05Z My normally sweet mother had transformed into a harridan. End of the affairs: the dangers of internet dating 2012-02-10T22:59:54Z And there’s no denying the subversive frisson inspired by watching actresses go full harridan, especially when it comes to traditional ideas about female agency and the approving male gaze. Perspective | Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolve 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Throughout her tenure as House speaker, Pelosi has been painted by Trump supporters as an unhinged harridan: crazy, conniving and hungry for power. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi held it together 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “Perhaps audiences are losing the assumption that any woman in a rage must be a harridan.” Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z But a blind love of Jesus can be enough to turn horror mothers into child-abusing harridans even without bereavement. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z There are ants in the jam; the landlady is a greedy, prescriptive harridan; their few sticks of furniture disappear — the list goes on. 'The Possessed': Open to anything, as long as it's Russian 2010-06-16T23:58:00Z And like that movie, it tends to belittle if not vilify its female characters: the Girl is somewhat naïve; the Mother is a cynic; the Sister and the Daughter can be harridans. Theater Review: ‘Middle of the Night,’ a Paddy Chayefsky Play 2014-02-28T21:32:21Z The worst bits of Bob Honey are those involving the character’s ex-wife, a harridan called Helen, about whom he is so vicious, I had wondered whether Penn’s own ex-wife might have commented on it. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z If that means getting rid of annoying fiancées and even wives, by whatever means necessary, this harridan is briskly ready to do whatever it takes. Review: Mom's a drag in lively 'The Silver Cord' 2013-06-12T21:46:11Z Justine Mitchell’s Regan, in turn, truly does possess the comforting eyes spoken of by her father, so her transformation into murderous harridan after the intermission seems doubly cruel. On the London Stage: Derek Jacobi's Close-Up 'King Lear' 2010-12-14T15:50:02Z Mr. King: Well, there was certain information I wanted to put across about how they got along and about Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, who was just a harridan. ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z “Cake,” about a devastated woman’s uncertain recovery, does away with pretty, peppy Aniston and installs a pill-popping harridan in her place. Jennifer Aniston Has Something to Prove With ‘Cake’ 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z As the dispossessed Queen Margaret, whose prophetic curses haunt the play, Ms. Redgrave is not the usual shrieking harridan but a bone-weary old woman, whose madness is steeped in a quiet, blisteringly bitter fatalism. In London, Back-Stabbing and Conniving (Onstage and Off) 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Success as Martha, Albee's foul-mouthed harridan, would grant Taylor what she had long craved: credibility as an actress. How Elizabeth Taylor silenced the censors 2011-03-30T23:53:15Z Still, for a generation brought up to smile in the face of almost any affront or risk being tarred as a harridan, older women’s indignation seems ripe for reassessment. They’re Mad as Hell 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z A mother, an estranged wife, a daughter, a student — almost all are tearful harridans, teasing seductresses or heartless, laughing tormentors. Review: In ‘The World of Kanako,’ the Old Ultraviolence 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The hapless Sheik’s row with his harridan wife becomes an entertaining show for the production’s cast and crew. ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z For all that she was in demand in later years to play harridans and busybodies, she never resorted to caricature. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z In Celtic mythology, ravens were one of the creatures thought to be used by shape-shifters, themselves often old women dressed in black rags, known as Morríghan or harridans. Strolling the ancient hillforts of southern England 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Ms. McDormand told me that she was not interested in modern interpretations of Macbeth as an emblem of toxic masculinity, or in correcting the stereotype of Lady Macbeth as a harridan. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z It appeared to label President Obama a “tyrant” and Hillary Clinton one of many “hapless old harridans.” Burns Night in the Age of Brexit and Trump 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z There’s a henpecked businessman who throws Gonda over in favor of toadying to his nagging wife and his harridan of a mother-in-law. Review: Ayn Rand’s ‘Ideal’ Presents a Protagonist Familiar in Her Superiority 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z His steed looks like an underfed harridan about to collapse. Auctions: Charles Ryskamp: The Collector Who Liked to Be Amused 2011-01-28T12:30:07Z She comes across as a nagging harridan, but actually she's just a woman who has to share her husband with the world. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z “She doesn’t just play Fricka as a harridan, so it has this epic sadness about it.” Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The hard edges that painted Sylvie as a harridan boss and villain of the series have steadily softened, though never dulled completely. Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu isn't the villain of 'Emily in Paris.' She's the role model 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z More crucially, the play deals with Tanner’s fraught relationship with the queen of this company, Diana Gibson, here renamed Monica and played by Jenny O'Hara with fierce harridan humor. Review: The engrossing 'Little Theatre' spills the tea on L.A.'s 99-seat theater scene 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z In Bailey's book, women in general, but the two former wives in particular, are depicted as harridans who continually make unreasonable demands on the great writer's time. From beyond the grave, Philip Roth cancels himself 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the novel, and by extension the film, paint Jackson as a two-dimensional harridan. What 'Shirley' gets very wrong about Shirley Jackson 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z But, for starters, treating us like nagging harridans when we ask for a bare minimum of respect is no way to win our votes. Opinion | Yes, Mayor Bloomberg, enough is enough 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z He made something of a speciality of playing middle-aged women, often one of the screeching harridans that populated the show. Monty Python's Terry Jones: Master of the absurd 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant. Opinion | Hating the Word ‘Hate’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Some Warren supporters took this as gendered language, evoking women, especially women who seek power, as harridans and shrews, shrill and emotional. Opinion | Politics is finally a coed sport. So, what rules apply? 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Most Kipling biographers have depicted her as a nag, a harridan, a ball-breaker. Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Her measured delivery is at odds with the image created by her detractors, who decry her as a “neuronazi” and a “grumpy old harridan” with an “equality fetish”. Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z It is one of a number of mischievous objects such as posters, postcards and playing cards that appeared regularly from about 1908 and depict the suffragette as a harridan. Unused ticket: The suffragette story in seven objects 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Sperm always is somehow, especially if your job description is harridan, as mine is. Making babies is beginning to look as difficult for men as it always has been for women 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Look, I’m the guy who once called her a “viperous harridan,” OK? Even Ann Coulter has the right to free expression 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Mood swings sent her from being a sparkling life of the party to a harridan who lashed out at her children and picked fights with her husband. ‘A Really Good Day’: a drop of LSD keeps the blues away 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z We will hear again of emails and Benghazi and the Clinton Foundation and maybe, just for a ratings punch, get an appearance by the Macbethian harridans of Bill Clinton’s interesting past. The Gangs of Washington are drawing their knives 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The suffragette organisations worked hard to counteract the perception of them as dowdy harridans and urged their members to emphasise their femininity by dressing their hair stylishly and wearing attractive clothes during demonstrations and protests. Unused ticket: The suffragette story in seven objects 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z They would seem to be no match for revenge-minded Tilly, with her red lipstick, cigarettes and haute couture, the likes of which the local harridans have only goggled at in magazines. ‘The Dressmaker’: Too many threads tangle revenge tale 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In his Amazon No. 1 bestseller called “Crisis of Character,” this former uniformed Secret Service agent alleges that Clinton is a mentally unhinged, profane harridan, completely off her rocker, nearly frothing at the mouth. Digging in the imaginary dirt: Trump’s speech devised to destroy Hillary today is based on a book of lies 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z During the London episode, she said, “people felt like something was being taken away” by the “harridans of political correctness.” With Election of Female President, a New Era for a Former Boys Club 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z One favourite was harridan, meaning a bossy or belligerent old woman. What will they call Hillary Clinton if she wins? 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The three harridans turn poor Cinderella into their slave. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Insurgent’ and ‘Cinderella’ 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Would you publicly humiliate your wife of 38 years, portraying her as some kind of shrieking harridan? Robert McDonnell throws his wife under the bus at trial The virtue of Klein’s book is that it presents a Hillary Clinton who is a right-winger’s harridan, obscene, dishonest and likely to say the most astonishing things. Conservatives will buy anything if it’s about the Clintons and Obamas There was a time, maybe, when the mother-in-law as harridan image was an apt—or at least fresh—source of humor, but that time is long past. Guess What! Dads Are Important! (Oh, You Knew That?) 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z For years Clinton has been derided as a harridan, made fun of for her hair accessories and pantsuits, or slammed for not being feminine or "likeable" enough. Hillary Clinton's book is exactly as 'safe' as female politicians are forced to be 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z They deserve mention as well: five harridans from Hell. The Good, the Bad and the Mommy: Five Great Movie Mothers, and the Five Worst 2014-05-11T13:00:31Z When she saw me she rushed at me and screamed, but I thrust the harridan out of my path, vaulted through the open window, and ran down the orchard slope. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Had it been worth while to summon such a silly harridan? The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Here the door was opened by an evil-looking harridan, who showed me upstairs to a thickly carpeted room, strewn with cushions, on which my host was lying. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z The old harridan who kept it—well known in that street when that girl was lost—went off to New Orleans, lost all her property, and then was lost herself. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z Is it the result of experience or intuition? or has this old ginger-faced harridan made you her favoured confidant? Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z She hates the Ingelows, and would move heaven and earth to injure them—spiteful, canting old harridan. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z He cursed like a trooper under his breath—swore he’d be even with the harridan yet—and I believed him. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It is not necessary to be a prude or a skinny old harridan either, to inveigh against the custom. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z If that bragging old harridan gets a cent out of my wife, I'll ... Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z It is now used only by meretricious persons and by those harridans of higher rank who resemble them in every respect, except that the former are ashamed of their profession, and the latter advertise it. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z To the backs of sundry weird harridans were strapped skins containing sour curds, which attracted flies in the tens of millions usually seen around the molasses at a Banian’s stall. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The only note that ever welcomed us to such villages, was the angry tongue of a scolding harridan, or else the hooting of the owls, or the cry of the jackal. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Silence, my old boy," said the old harridan to the Schoolmaster; "the young 'mot' and the 'black slug' are just crossing the path. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 The gaucheries were turning the last screw, But there was still the island in the sea, The harridan chorus of eternity, That let her smile because he saw she knew. Sonnets from the Patagonian "Confounded old harridan!" muttered Upton, between his teeth; "I 'd not take her with Rothschild's bank at her disposal." Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) His father condemned as a felon, his mother such a wicked old harridan, his life, to say the very least, uncouth. A Man in the Open Beaming girls and bedizened harridans flaunt in the Row, carriages roll, and polite and impolite jostle each other for gain or gaiety. Love's Usuries "No," she said, "no one knows what I've put up with from this insolent old harridan, and now I am going to say what I think." Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance I have been all my days a dead hand at a harridan, I never saw the one yet that could resist me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Jean Cochrane was of a Covenanting stock, and her mother a very harridan of bigotry. Graham of Claverhouse He almost told himself that he would marry Miss Green, were it not that he was determined not to be dictated to by that old harridan. Is He Popenjoy? Go and say good-by, however, to the old harridan; I think she has a few conventional tears to shed. The Strollers Query: How best neutralise the spells of these partial harridans? Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The house was a noted resort for thieves, and the old harridan who kept it was known to the police as a 'fence,' or one who purchased stolen goods. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston "Come, old harridan, don't bother monsieur!" exclaimed a police officer, grasping Germinie by the arm and swinging her around roughly. Germinie Lacerteux King or herdsman, jester or sage, croupier or harridan—lend her what personality you please—Fate hath the reins and so the laugh of the universe. Anthony Lyveden One grim-visaged old harridan of whom Manhattan stood in fawning fear, bluntly informed her that she'd better look out for her boy if she didn't want to become a grandmother. Athalie She had not gone willingly, of that he was sure; but it was equally evident that her mother had no such thoughts as those two harridans had suggested. "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus The ideal poor, grateful and resigned, proved cross and greedy old harridans. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) He stood in front of the virtuous harridan, his lips working, his fingers convulsively clutching the air. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol The boy was thunderstruck, and blurted out: “It’s that old harridan!” then blushed crimson. A Dixie School Girl While the courtesan—alas! a ridiculous garish absurdity, a grim ghost of past merriment, a horrid relic of forgotten debauches, a painted harridan at whom the boys jeer when she passes down the street. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg He had taken the hook, and now had totally forgotten all those former notions of his in regard to a prey, and a fish, and a mercenary old harridan of a mother. Ralph the Heir I would give much to have seen the faces of those harridans! The Valley of the Kings Her mother, who was a cunning old harridan, and greedy and avaricious to a degree, gave us every opportunity of being together. Yorke The Adventurer I could strangle that old harridan with joy. The Squirrel-Cage President Grant was brought not only to smother the Desdemona of his early preferences and intentions, but to feel no remorse for the deed, and take to his bosom the harridan of radicalism. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Though he did call Lady Eardham a harridan, he resolved that he would keep his promise for the following morning. Ralph the Heir A monstrous female, almost pure white, huge, misshapen, hideous—the ultimate harridan of the wolf-breed—she stood a full two hands above the tallest of the rank and file of her evil clan. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest "An I get at you—" "Take the garment, you harridan, not the man," he retorted, slipping deftly out of the jerkin and dancing away to a safe distance. Under the Rose My dosing may do no good and before the day is out you may be calling me a meddlesome old harridan. Carl and the Cotton Gin A distinguished New York judge told the following: Two tenement harridans look out of their windows simultaneously. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home The women, who but a moment before had seemed creatures of grace and charm, were now nothing more than painted, posturing harridans, their seductive smiles the leers of shameless sin. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The excessive red on the face gives a coarseness to every feature, and a general fierceness to the countenance, which transforms the elegant lady of fashion into a vulgar harridan. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert "It's the old harridan herself, and I 'll keep my eye on her." The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas She is a grasping harridan, who demands all and offers nothing. The Great Amulet Some were clothed as bears, apes, and wolves; others were tricked out in armour; a number appeared as harridans, with blackened faces and tattered clothes, and all kept up a promiscuous fight. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide And I'll tell you what; I believe that old harridan of an aunt of mine is willing to do the same thing now again. Can You Forgive Her? Surrounded with the noisy clans Of prudes, coquettes and harridans. The Little Tea Book "You'll sell it, will you!" cried out Diana indignantly, pouncing down on the harridan. The Silent House Where, where has that——harridan hid my glasses? A Crooked Path A Novel To the crystal well as the sun drew low There came that harridan of woe. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea The vilest harridan Is not too low, If there is pity’s need; And no man born, For cruelty or greed Escapes that scorn. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen The mother's an awful old harridan—" "Yes, and when the daughter is her age she will be a harridan, too, the gentle rustic beauties have gone out of date, like the old poets. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life It was an interesting speculation whether in twenty years she would develop into a harridan or a woman of unusual character. The Sheriff's Son A half-drunk harridan surveyed him, from top to toe, and made a profound bow as he passed. In the Days of Poor Richard I love it," he said simply, "taking nature in hand a bit—she's a wicked old harridan, isn't she? Captivity However the old harridan put it, you were asked to give me up; and, after all, everything turns on our answer to that. Lady Good-for-Nothing Suddenly she turned to him with a sort of vulgar passion, that suspicion of the hard young harridan, typical of the pavement, which he had observed in her before. Flames The political harridans would get the wrong men appointed, would attack every possible leader with scandal and abuse and falsehood.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through But for her abbreviated trunk, and those few pathetic inches of twisted leg—chiefly feet—she might have passed for a matronly-looking and rather handsome old harridan, half Scotch and half Irish. The Bed-Book of Happiness But that is the old harridan's account of it.' The Castle Inn But the old harridan never spoke to me after the grooming I gave her that morning at Natchett. Lady Good-for-Nothing This flashed into the sudden frown of a young harridan as her eyes travelled on to Valentine. Flames She's an artful old harridan; and if my girl had not been a fool, she'd have got rid of her out of hand when she married. Fenton's Quest The fact of the matter was that the heartless harridan, discontent, had laid her claw-like hand upon him. My Brilliant Career "What is the matter?—would you strangle me, you murderous harridan?" he cried. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire It takes more than three years of scholastic self-discipline, such as Sophie Dawes in her ambition subjected herself to, to eradicate the inborn harridan. She Stands Accused The mere fact of having her feet firmly planted upon the floor gave Cuckoo a certain fillip of courage, and she tossed her head with that old vulgar gesture of hers which suggested the harridan. Flames Those harridans on the panels upstairs have unsettled you. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thwarted, I am senseless enough at times to become like a bullying schoolboy, and I say the first outrageous things which come to my tongue—conduct worthy only of a harridan. The Brown Mask Why, then, you disgusting old harridan," said I, "I grant you it is utterly impossible to defend my behaviour in this matter, and, believe me, I don't for an instant undertake the task. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking She is not a harridan, whatever that elegant word may mean. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger It would be a hideous reversal of the old romance; instead of seeing the girl in the old woman, he would foresee the harridan in the girl! The Best British Short Stories of 1922 He had seized Good Fortune by the forelock, and not waited to find the harridan's bald and slippery crown turned to him in pitiless derision. Charlotte's Inheritance "I care nothing for the opinion of that harridan, except that it may bring harsh usage to you; but Beatrix, I have told you bluntly of my love for you, answer me as honestly." The Strong Arm The figure above was so indifferent as hardly to glance down where the offended harridan was steaming with a fume of curses. The Puritans "I meet the harridan from Covent Garden on the stairs every morning." London Pride Or When the World Was Younger I'll sell myself, borrow, pay back the money, rather than marry that harridan.' Selected Polish Tales How, he touched up some of the old harridans who were seated round! The Virginians Somehow he must get this harridan out of the way at once! The History of David Grieve The heel of the vindictive harridan ground viciously upon the lips of the dying man and choked his utterance. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series There was nothing whatever the matter with the old harridan. Melody : the Story of a Child She had been quite sure that the offer was about to be made when that odious old harridan had come in and disturbed everything. The Eustace Diamonds He thought of the painted harridans, the bare-shouldered skeletons, whom some of his young friends were obliged to own in the same capacity, and he was thankful that he could reverence his father's mother. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Spargo felt a sense of disgust almost amounting to nausea, but he was going to hear what the old harridan had to say and he tried not to look what he felt. The Middle Temple Murder The door was flung open, and there stood the fat harridan, and towering over her was a great red-haired policeman, who seemed both relieved and abashed when he saw Ideala. Ideala Hag, harridan, or any similar term will usually correctly render the word. Tales of the Punjab One would have thought her childish innocence and her terrible loss would have softened the heart even of such a cantankerous, virulent old harridan as that, till a few weeks were over, at least. Philistia Every time he came home from church, that redheaded harridan would open up on him with such a string of vituperation that he had to hold his ears so's not to forget himself and backslide. West Wind Drift They were to be met with every day, round every street corner, these harridans, more terrible far than were the men. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel One tattered harridan, a century old, was sheltering three spare-looking lettuces beneath an umbrella of pink silk, shockingly split and stained. The Fat and the Thin I was forced to attend on that harridan, Lady Aresfield, till my mother sent for me; and then she made Mar absolutely watch me off the premises. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume She pointed to a hideous old harridan standing on the opposite pavement, her bare arms resting on her hips, and a greasy yellow kerchief twisted turban-wise round her head. Dreams and Dream Stories "Don't be afraid, old ladies," he said, glancing at the harridans between us. The Eye of Zeitoon Old Mr. Burgess was much surprised, and was at first disposed to decline the proposition made by the "old harridan," as he called her. He Knew He Was Right The harridans passed the time of day to her, and the time of day meant some obscene remark unfit for women’s ears. I Will Repay I did get a letter this morning from my friend Bernard Dale,—that old harridan's nephew; and Lord De Guest has been worried by some of his animals. The Small House at Allington The old harridan Fatimah next obtrudes, and, exhibiting again her devilish propensities, receives her quietus by being very properly "smitten on the neck." The Life of Sir Richard Burton The mother made a great noise over the matter, but I gave Rosanna a large sum of money for her, and this the old harridan accepted, and left for New Zealand. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Well there was one old lady, and a drunken old harridan she was surely, that paid all her attention to me. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Suddenly a miserable harridan struck her straight in the face, with hard, grimy fist, and a long shout of exultation greeted this monstrous deed. I Will Repay "Cross-grained old harridan," he said out loud to his nephew. The Small House at Allington I told the old harridan that I would very gladly leave her thirty if she would give me my Angelica. Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini But there also came old harridans—as often as not, diggers themselves—whose language outdid that of the males, and dirty Irish mothers; besides a couple of the white women who inhabited the Chinese quarter. Australia Felix These pillars are call'd by a Frenchified word, A something that's jumbled of antique and verd; The boxes may show us some verdant antiques, Some old harridans who beplaster their cheeks. Rejected Addresses One morning I catch the two harridans fighting out their quarrel on the floor. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The old harridan stopped in surprise, showing her tooth. A Spirit in Prison Watch the fingers of the two old harridans who are talking scandal: for what long years past they have pointed out holes in their neighbors' dresses and mud on their flounces. John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character It was like a goad to the painted, shiny-eyed harridan on the sofa. Under Western Eyes And here the old harridan railed at me until the child whimpered for fear and even I blenched before the woman's fierce aspect and shrewish tongue. Black Bartlemy's Treasure One morning, I catch the two harridans fighting out their quarrel on the floor. The Life of the Spider It was her keeper who tore her away in the end, cling as she would to Michael, screaming all the while like a harridan. Michael, Brother of Jerry The wives become screaming harridans or, broken-spirited and doglike, lose what little decency and self-respect they have remaining over from their maiden days, and all sink together, unheeding, in their degradation and dirt. The People of the Abyss Formerly the dead were allowed to rest, but now it seems they are at the beck and call of a crazy old harridan. Under Western Eyes And that Mignon, who goes loafing about the pavement in behalf of his harridan of a wife, whom nobody wants because she's so lean! Four Short Stories By Emile Zola He thought that she was more like a child of Satan kept there by these two weird harridans for the love of the Devil. Within the Tides |
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